OTTAWA (Reuters) - The son of one of the greatest defenders of Canadian unity, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has stirred up a hornets' nest by speculating about backing Quebec separatism if the country moves too far right.

Trudeau's 40-year-old son, Justin, now a Liberal member of Parliament, said in an interview with the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp on Sunday that he was enormously saddened by the direction of the country under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

He said that at some point he might even back independence for his home province, French-speaking Quebec. Referendums in Quebec on independence in 1980 and 1995 both failed, the last one by a mere 1.2 percentage points.

"I always say, if at a certain point I thought that Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper - that we were going against abortion, and we were going against gay marriage and we were going backwards in 10,000 different ways - maybe I would think about wanting to make Quebec a country," he said.

I do hope they separate. BC and the western provinces have long been screwed by the dirty little secret that actually is the foundation of canada...equalization payments. Meaning, canada’s provinces has a gun to it’s head and the equalization payments were a mafia tribute as to appease Quebec in staying since confederation. I was a kid in Sask when the QC referendum unfolded in 1995.

I pissed off a lot of my HS teachers when they were bragging “we are not Americans as we belong to the UK as part of Commonwealth.” My answer was “if we are, then why is French spoken as the national language?’

“Canada would be better off ditching Quebec. Think of all they money they could save by not having to print everything in English and French anymore.”

There was a series of articles about it when I was still in BC. It’s mandatory to have French as it is fed law but in western canada, no one really speaks it. The worst part if that French Tv channels and radio are required, and the reason why people watch it is because there show French movies where most of the women are nekkid’.

Tell you what Justin, mon ami; You keep Quebec and we'll trade you everything north of Fredricksburg, VA and east of the I-95 corridor and throw in San Francisco and Southern California for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and the 3 NW Territories.

Trudeau's 40-year-old son, Justin, now a Liberal member of Parliament, said in an interview with the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp on Sunday that he was enormously saddened by the direction of the country under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

But ask most CANADIANS if they care what you think, you Dumb a$$.

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posted on 02/15/2012 10:45:40 AM PST
by ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)

There are more people living west of Ontario than east for the first time in Canadian history and this trend will continue. Quebec population growth is anemic and if you remove the immigrant component it is scary. i read an article that on quebec demographics that highlighted one scary number: 40% of quebecers in less than twenty-five yrs from now will be from non-traditional french quebec families (ie immigrants and their offspring). With a large percentage of them coming from the third world. Qubec willbe reduced to 10% or less of the overall population as these growth trends continue. Given that Quebec is the most socialist cradle to grave jurisdication outside of Cuba, you can see that it will be another greece in no time. I would hasard a guess that it will be English canada that will invitably expell Quebec from Canada and not the other way around. As to to the little marxist from the Papineau riding of Montreal, he is the product of the modern progressive movement that has a stranglehold on this province. Abortion and gay marriage is their religion and have no concern whatsoever what these policies will have on the very fabric of canadian society since their answer to everything is confiscatory taxes through the power of the state to be distributed according to their definition of entitlement. His father was another POS marxist that brought Canada to the edge of the abyss.

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